****SPOILERS**** By blackmailing his boss Vic St. John, Jerry Orbach, top Denver station KGGY news anchor Brett Huston, John James, has gotten practically everything he wanted. Now the low down scheming heel wants to have the entire on the air news cast co-anchorwoman Gillian Pope,Kerrie Keane,sportscaster Chuck Gilmore, Philip Michael Thomas, weatherman Al Shockly, Earl Billings, as well as his ex-wife producer Twyla Cooper,Susan Sullivan, fired by threatening to reveal their past indiscretions. With the news of Huston's latest venture,in a leaked memo, made public everyone at the station has it in for the slime-ball! It's after he's finished doing his newscast Huston is finished for good in him being found shot to death in the TV station's underground garage!
It's co-anchor Gillian Pope who's picked up by the police in her not only publicly threatening Huston's life, and throwing a can of face cream at him, but being spotted at the garage, where she claimed that she wasn't, moments before the shooting. Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, taking Gillian's case feels she innocent but her lying to him about her whereabouts at the time of Huston's murder makes things far worse then better for her. Finally coming clean and telling Perry the truth Gillian admits that she indeed was at the garage the time that Huston got it but not to kill him but plead with him to get her job back. As things turned out someone got to Huston before she did and ended up whacking him with two bullets in his gut!
It takes a lot of shoe leather as well as flying time for Perry's private investigator Ken Manlansky, William R. Moses, to track down a key witness in Huston's death KGGY news cameraman Sam Garza, Gary Glem, who checked out of Denver and ended up in L.A in order for him to both avoid the long arm of the law as well as Perry Mason's cross-examining him on the witness stand! Malansky finally gets the very agile and Tarzan-like vine or cable swinging Garza who in trying to avoid capture ends up electrocuting himself!
***SPOILERS*** Unknown to Huston's killer Perry pulled a rabbit out of his hat on him, or her, in making him believe that Garza was killed, This shocked him to admit his crime when the "dead" Garza suddenly appeared in court to contradicts the killers testimony in that it was Garza, whom he figured wasn't around to defend himself, not him that did the killing!
Another bullseye for Perry Mason as he hits his target dead center as a defense attorney by weeding out all the innocent persons, including his client Gillian Pope, who were suspected in Brett Huston's murder. Perry uncovered the truth that eventually lead to the fast food restaurant chain "Happy Hamburger" that finally implicated Huston's killer. It was at that "Happy Hamburger" joint, said to have the best and most juicy hamburgers in town, that at the end of the movie where Perry took his entire staff including Gillian Pope, with him picking up the tab of course, out for dinner.
It's co-anchor Gillian Pope who's picked up by the police in her not only publicly threatening Huston's life, and throwing a can of face cream at him, but being spotted at the garage, where she claimed that she wasn't, moments before the shooting. Perry Mason, Raymond Burr, taking Gillian's case feels she innocent but her lying to him about her whereabouts at the time of Huston's murder makes things far worse then better for her. Finally coming clean and telling Perry the truth Gillian admits that she indeed was at the garage the time that Huston got it but not to kill him but plead with him to get her job back. As things turned out someone got to Huston before she did and ended up whacking him with two bullets in his gut!
It takes a lot of shoe leather as well as flying time for Perry's private investigator Ken Manlansky, William R. Moses, to track down a key witness in Huston's death KGGY news cameraman Sam Garza, Gary Glem, who checked out of Denver and ended up in L.A in order for him to both avoid the long arm of the law as well as Perry Mason's cross-examining him on the witness stand! Malansky finally gets the very agile and Tarzan-like vine or cable swinging Garza who in trying to avoid capture ends up electrocuting himself!
***SPOILERS*** Unknown to Huston's killer Perry pulled a rabbit out of his hat on him, or her, in making him believe that Garza was killed, This shocked him to admit his crime when the "dead" Garza suddenly appeared in court to contradicts the killers testimony in that it was Garza, whom he figured wasn't around to defend himself, not him that did the killing!
Another bullseye for Perry Mason as he hits his target dead center as a defense attorney by weeding out all the innocent persons, including his client Gillian Pope, who were suspected in Brett Huston's murder. Perry uncovered the truth that eventually lead to the fast food restaurant chain "Happy Hamburger" that finally implicated Huston's killer. It was at that "Happy Hamburger" joint, said to have the best and most juicy hamburgers in town, that at the end of the movie where Perry took his entire staff including Gillian Pope, with him picking up the tab of course, out for dinner.